Word: curtness
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...Cracked LaGuardia: "I understand Pearson is to be named a Lithuanian count." Later he snapped at newsmen: "Don't ask silly questions." And even after President Roosevelt hinted that there might soon be a new assignment for him, the little mayor kept mum. He sent Manhattan newsmen a curt note: "I have an assignment with my dentist." Leaving City Hall that night, he rudely barked: "I'm going to clean up the streets tonight; I'm good at that...
...When Saskatchewan's 80-year-old Lieutenant Governor Archibald P. McNab asked to retire, Saskatchewan's Socialist Premier Tommy Douglas proposed that the Federal Government consult him on the choice of McNab's successor. Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King's reply was a curt, crusty...
...Munich last month the Nazis and Japs were clasped in a tender esthetic embrace. Nazi Playwright Curt Langenbeck had adapted the most famed of Japanese dramas, The 47 Rōnin, which was produced with considerable care and éclat. To the opening of Treue (Loyalty) went Gauleiter Giesler and other Nazi party officials to welcome the representatives of "our great ally," Japanese Ambassador Oshima, Japanese Minister Sakuma...
Newsmen in Chungking last week received from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek a curt reply to their request for permission to visit the Communist area. Said the Gissimo, who is now trying to settle the differences between Chungking and Red China: The Central Government will extend them a formal invitation "when the time comes...
...première was postponed again. Ording was brought from prison to the Chief of Police, ordered back into the show in curt quislingo: "Don't try any tricks this time or it will cost you your life. . . . The show will open...